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Passengers wait to check-in in a terminal of Charles de Gaulle airport, Friday, July 1, 2022, at Roissy airport, north of Paris. Flights from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and other French airports faced disruptions Friday as airport workers held a strike and protests to demand salary hikes to keep up with inflation. It's the latest trouble to hit global airports this summer, as travel resurges after two years of virus restrictions. (AP Photo/ Thomas Padilla)

After two pandemic years, a summer travel bounce — and chaos

By Laurie Kellman - Associated Press

Police special intervention units and rescue workers are seen next to the Apple Store, two windows at right, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, where an armed person was holed up in with at least one hostage in an hours-long standoff with scores of police massed outside. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Amsterdam Apple shop hostage-taker sought 200M-euro ransom

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Ronald Leopold, executive director Anne Frank House, gestures as he talks next to the passage to the secret annex during an interview in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years may have solved one of World War II's enduring mysteries: Who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family? Their answer, outlined in a new book, is that it most likely was a Jewish lawyer called Arnold van den Bergh. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Cold case team shines new light on betrayal of Anne Frank

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, visitors queue to enter the modern and contemporary art museum, Stedelijk Museum, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam municipality said Friday Aug. 27, 2021, it will return the valuable &quot;Painting With Houses&quot; artwork by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned it, ending years of legal wrangling over the work that was sold at auction in 1940. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, FILE)

Amsterdam to return Kandinsky work to pre-war owners’ heirs

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 file photo PSV's Eran Zahavi celebrates his second goal against Olympiakos during a Europa League, round of 32, first leg soccer match, between Olympiacos and PVS at Georgios Karaiskakis stadium in Piraeus port, near Athens. The wife of PSV Eindhoven and Israel striker Eran Zahavi said Monday May 10, 2021, she was the victim of a “horrifying experience” after two robbers, one of them armed, tied up and gagged her and her children in the couple's home in Amsterdam. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

‘Horrifying’ robbery at home of Israel, PSV striker Zahavi

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Visitors admire the Sistine Chapel inside the Vatican Museums on the occasion of the museum's reopening, in Rome, Monday, May 3, 2021. The Vatican Museums reopened Monday to visitors after a shutdown following COVID-19 containment measures. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Fireworks damage Amsterdam cafe frequented by Ajax fans

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Sotheby's personnel display « Scene de rue à Montmartre » (Street scene in Montmartre), a painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh at Sotheby's auction house in Paris, Thursday, Feb. 25, 202. The artwork painted in 1887 is to be on public display for the first time ahead of an auction next month. It has remained in the same family collection for over 100 years, according to the auction house which did not reveal the identity of the owner. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Rarely seen Van Gogh painting exhibited ahead of auction

By SYLVIE CORBET and OLEG CETINIC - Associated Press

Dutch get their skates on in Amsterdam before the thaw

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Dutch police use water cannon on anti-government protesters

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A person enters the European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, where the EMA's human medicines committee is holding an exceptional, fully virtual, meeting to conclude the evaluation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

EU greenlights COVID-19 vaccine after agency gives safety OK

By FRANK JORDANS and LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Dutch court refuses to return painting to Jewish heirs

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FILE - In this Wednesday, June 12, 2019 file photo, Jacqueline van Maarsen, left, and Albert Gomes de Mesquita, school friends of Anne Frank, talk to students during an event to mark what would have been Anne Frank's 90th birthday, in Amsterdam. Jacqueline van Maarsen laid the first stone Wednesday Sept. 23, 2020, at a new memorial under construction in Amsterdam to honor all Dutch victims of the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Michael C. Corder, File)

First stone laid at Dutch Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdam

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A statue is seen outside Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. A spokeswoman for Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium says a bronze statute of an athlete saluting with an outstretched arm reminiscent of the gesture made infamous at rallies in Nazi Germany is to be removed from outside the stadium because the salute has links to fascism. The 3-meter (10-foot) tall bronze statue that was placed outside the stadium for the 1928 Summer Games that were staged in the Dutch capital. (AP Photo/Esther Corder)

Saluting statue to be removed from Amsterdam Olympic Stadium

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FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, March 20, 2020, a lone man walks past closed brothels in the capital's famous Red Light District on a weekend night in the center of Amsterdam, Netherlands, as the country has come to a near standstill because of the coronavirus. It wasn't quite business as usual Wednesday July 1, 2020, as Amsterdam's Red Light District emerged from coronavirus lockdown, but it was close to normal for the world's oldest profession. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, FILE)

Amsterdam’s red-light district emerges from lockdown

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A statue of the Dutch Golden Age trader and brutal colonialist Jan Pieterszoon Coen stands tall above a square in his hometown of Hoorn, north of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, June 19, 20202. Coen was a leading figure in 17th-century trading powerhouse the Dutch East India Company, but has gone down in history as the &quot;butcher of Banda,&quot; the man who ordered a bloody massacre on the Banda Islands, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The Netherlands marks anniversary of abolition of slavery

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Thousands of people demonstrated in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in a park in Amsterdam, Wednesday June 10, 20202, named for South African anti-Apartheid icon Nelson Mandela. It was the latest in a series of protests in Dutch cities that have followed the death of George Floyd in Minnesota on May 25, 2020, and the protests across the United States and the world that followed. Floyd, a black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee on his neck even after he pleaded for air while lying handcuffed on the ground. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Thousands attend Black Lives Matter demo in Amsterdam

By PETER DEJONG - Associated Press

People observe social distancing when standing in line to buy coffee and juice on King's Day in Amsterdam Netherlands, Monday, April 27, 2020. The Dutch national birthday party was a muted affair, dubbed King's Day at Home because of coronavirus restriction, a far cry usual nationwide celebration with street parties. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

No orange crush: Dutch celebrate King’s Day at home

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

A boy in a wetsuit takes advantage of the ban on recreational boats and jumps into one of the normally crowded canals on a warm spring day in the city center of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, April 5, 2020. The Dutch appeared to heed government directives to stay clear of forests beaches and parks to avoid large crowds and the risk of spreading the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Amsterdam set to ban tourist home rentals in 3 neighborhoods

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People queue to buy marijuana at the coffeeshop Bulwackie in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, March 15, 2020, after a TV address by health minister Bruno Bruins who ordered all Dutch schools, cafes, restaurants, coffeeshops and sport clubs to be closed on Sunday as the government sought to prevent the further spread of coronavirus in the Netherlands. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Up in smoke: Coronavirus closures hit Dutch coffeeshops

By PETER DEJONG - Associated Press

-FILE- In this Friday March 29, 2019, file image tourists bathing in a red glow emanating from the windows and peep shows' neon lights are packed shoulder to shoulder as they shuffle through the alleys in Amsterdam's red light district, Netherlands. The capital is banning tours that take groups past the city's famed &quot;windows,&quot; where sex workers pose in the Red Light District, the latest attempt to rein in the nuisance of over-tourism. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Amsterdam bans tour groups from sex workers’ windows

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